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THE COLLEGE 



BOWDOIN COLLEGE was incorporated in 1794, 
while Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts, and more than a quarter of a century 
before she was admitted into the Union as a separate State. 





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The college was named in honor of James Bowdoin, a 
distinguished Governor of Massachusetts, of Huguenot 
descent, a member of the first Continental Congress in 
Philadelphia, and a close personal friend of Washington, 
Besides his many civil offices and honors he bore honorary 
academic degrees from Harvard, from the University of 

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Pennsylvania, and from the University of Edinburgh. He 
was the first president of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences, and was a valued friend and correspondent of 
Benjamin Franklin. 

An early patron of the college was the Hon. James 
Bowdoin, son of the Governor, who, while minister of the 
United States at the Spanish and French courts in President 
Jefferson's administration, collected a valuable library, a 
most interesting gallery of paintings and drawings by old 
and modern masters, a fine cabinet of minerals and fossils, 
all of which, together with lands and money, he gave or 
bequeathed to the college. In the variety and value of its 
art treasures it is probably not surpassed by any collegiate 
institution in the country. 

The college is unsectarian in its government, adminis- 
tration, and instruction. One half the vacancies on its 
board of overseers are filled bv nominations of the alumni. 
Its academical, medical, and honorary graduates number 
together five thousand two hundred and ninety ; its enroll- 
ment for the present year (1904—05) is four hundred 
and thirteen, of whom fortv-three are professors and 
instructors. 

LOCATION 

Brunswick, the seat of 
the college, is on the main 
line of the Maine Central 
Railroad, and at the junc- 
tion of two branch lines. 
It is easily accessible, 
forty-five minutes from 




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Portland, four hours from Boston, three hours from 
Bangor, and is connected by both steam and electric roads 
with Bath, Lewiston, and Portland. First settled as early 
as 1628, it is a town of seven thousand inhabitants, with a 
carefully graded and ordered public school system, a free 
public library, and seven churches. It has a weekly news- 




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paper, several large manufacturing establishments (cotton, 
paper, pulp, boxes, etc.), and three national banks. The 
climatic conditions are most healthful ; the town has a 
water supply of unusual purity, it is provided with a 
complete sewerage system, and with electric lights. The 
vicinity offers inviting facilities for the recreations and 
sports of both summer and winter, — delightful walks 



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and drives, river boating, golf-links, skating, snow-shoeing, 
and skeeing. 

The college buildings, twelve in number, are grouped 
upon a spacious campus of about forty acres, five minutes' 
walk from the 
railroad station, 
one mile from 
the Andro- 
scoggin river 
with its pictur- 
esque falls, and 
a few miles 
(threeto fifteen) 
from various 
attractive re- 
sorts on the 
shores of Casco 

Bay. A central heating and lighting plant supplies steam 
heat and electric lights to all the buildings, which are also 
connected with the water and sewerage systems of the town. 




MEMORIAL HALL 




BUILDINGS 

Massachusetts Hall, 
the oldest of the college 
buildings, contains the 
offices of the treasurer 
of the college, a lecture- 
room in which are the 
quaint colonial fireplace 
and oven used for a time 



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by the first president of the college, and the Cleaveland 
Cabinet of mineralogy and natural history, named in memory 
of Professor Parker Cleaveland. 

Winthrop Hall, Maine Hall, and Appleton Hall 
are dormitories, of brick and stone, each one hundred feet by 
forty, and of four stories. Each of these dormitories con- 




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tains thirty-two suites, consisting of a sitting-room, or study, 
a bed-room, and an ample closet. The buildings are heated 
and lighted with steam and electricity from the central station, 
and are supplied with water from the town system. 

King Chapel, named in honor of Governor William 
King, the first governor of Maine, is a Romanesque church 
of undressed granite, the facade of which is marked by 
twin towers and spires which rise to the height of one 
hundred and twenty feet. The interior, following the 
model of English college chapels, is arranged after the 
manner of a cathedral choir, with a broad central aisle 
from either side of which rise the ranges of seats. The 



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lofty walls are decorated with mural paintings, mostly 
copies of old masters, and the decorated ceiling is carried 
up into the roof. A spacious room in the chapel building, 
known as Bannister Hall, is devoted to the uses of the 
Y. M. C. A. 

Memorial 
Hall, con- 
structed of 
granite, is a 
memorial to 
the graduates 
and students of 
the collegewho 
served in the 
Union army or 
navy during 
the Civil War. 
On the first 

floor are lecture-rooms and offices. The hall, on the second 
floor, is a spacious audience room for exhibitions and other 
public exercises. It is adorned with busts and portraits of 
presidents, professors, benefactors, and distinguished graduates 
of the college, together with bronze tablets containing the 
names of two hundred and 
ninety Bowdoin men who 
fought to maintain the 
Union. 

Mary Frances Searles 
Science Building is a 
memorial gift by Mr. Ed- 
ward F. Searles, in memory 



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of his wife. It is built of Perth Amboy brick and Ohio 
stone, and is practically fire-proof. It is one hundred and 
eighty feet in length, and, with two parallel wings, one 
hundred and five feet in depth. Designed for the use of 
thedepartments 
of chemistry, 
physics, and 
biology, it con- 
tains both large 
and small labo- 
ratories for each 
of these depart- 
ments, with 
lecture - rooms, 
offices, store- 
rooms, cabinets, 
machinery for 
construction of 

apparatus, a conservatory, etc. It is fully adapted to 
the uses it is intended to serve. 

Walker Art Building, designed for the exhibition of 
the art treasures of the college, was erected by the Misses 
Harriet and Sophia Walker as a memorial of their uncle, 

Theophilus Wheeler 
Walker. It is a notable 
specimen of architecture 
in proportion, fitness, and 
beauty, and is fire-proof. 
It is one hundred feet in 
length and seventy-three 




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LABORATORY — BIOLOGY 



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in depth, and is surrounded on three sides by a paved terrace 
with granite supporting walls and parapets. Granite and 
bronze sculptures mark the entrance and adorn the front wall. 
Within, four tympana below the dome of the Sculpture Hall 
are filled with mural paintings by John La Farge, Kenyon 
Cox, Elihu Vedder, and 
Abbott Thayer. The 
building has three gal- 
leries, the Bowdoin, the 
Boyd, and the Sophia 
Wheeler Walker Gal- 
leries, filled with rare 
paintings, portraits, 
miniatures, drawings 
and etchings, ivory 
carvings, ancient glass, 
tapestries, laces, Japan- 
ese bronze and pottery, 
antiquities, etc. The 
building is open to 

visitors from 10 to 12.30 a.m. and 1.30 to 4 daily 
throughout the year; Sundays and holidays, 1.30 to 4.30. 

Hubbard Hall, the library of the college, is a gift from 
General Thomas Hamlin Hubbard, of the class of 1857, 
and his wife, Sibyl Fahnestock Hubbard. It is one hundred 
and seventy feet in length, and fifty feet in depth, with a 
wing, for the stack- room, eighty-eight feet by forty-six. It 
is of seventeenth-century Gothic architecture, with a central 
projecting tower one hundred feet in height, and is entirely 
fire-proof. It contains two large reading and consultation 




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rooms, a lecture hall, alumni and seminar rooms, offices, etc. 
The library contains more than eighty-two thousand volumes, 
and several thousand unbound pamphlets, and is a subscriber 




WALKER ART BUILDING 



to about two hundred periodicals, A merican and foreign. The 
library is open daily from 8.30 to 5.30, and in the evening 
from 7 to 9.30. 

The nine buildings which have been mentioned enclose 
an ample and attractive quadrangle of about twenty acres, 
the main entrances to which are through two notable 
memorial gateways, erected by the classes of 1875 and 1878. 

Outside the limitsof the 
quadrangle are Adams 
Hall, with lecture-rooms 
for the Academical and 
Medical departments, 
and a physiological labo- 
ratory ; the Observa- 
tory, with the necessary 




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equipment for astronomical observation and instruction; and 
the Sargent Gymnasium, fitted with the most approved 
apparatus for physical instruction and exercise. 

From the Gymnasium a short path through a beautiful 
groveof pines leads to theWHiTTiER Athletic Field. This 
field, in convenient proximity to the campus, affords an ideal 
place for the college 
sports of baseball, foot- 
ball, and track athletics, 
with a commodious and 
architectural Grand 
Stand, the gift of 
General Thomas H. 
Hubbard, of New York. 
It is a substantial struc- 
ture of stone, brick, 
iron, and cement, and 
contains, besides seats 
for eight hundred spec- 
tators, training quar- 
ters for the athletes, 
baths, dressing-rooms 

with lockers, and other WEST ROW _ NORTH VIEW 

conveniences. 

There are tennis-courts in the vicinity of the Gymnasium, 
and on the grounds of some of the Fraternity Houses. 




ADMINISTRATION 

The Examination for Admission covers the subjects 
required by the leading New England colleges. Subjects 
representing an aggregate of twenty-six points must be 



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offered by the applicant ; twenty of these points represent 
required studies ; the remaining six points may be made up 
from a list of fourteen elective subjects. The examination 
may be divided between successive years, or between June 
and September 
of the same 
year. Explicit 
details, includ- 
ing times and 
places for ex- 
am i nat i ons, 
may be learned 
from the col- 
lege catalogue, 
which will be 
sent to any one 
desiring it. 

Admission by Certificate. In place of examinations, 
certificates will be accepted from those preparatory schools 
in New England which have been approved by the New 
England College Entrance Certificate Board. The associated 
colleges on this Board are Amherst, Boston University, 

Bowdoin, Brown Uni- 
versity, Dartmouth, 
Mount Holyoke, Smith, 
Wellesley, Tufts, and the 
University of Maine. 

The examination cer- 
tificates issued by the 
College Entrance Ex- 





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amination Board of the Middle States and Maryland are ac- 
cepted in so far as they meet the requirements of the college. 

The Curriculum for the degree of A.B, may be briefly 
summarized as follows : 

The required studies are English (including writing and 
elocution), French, German, Hygiene, and Physical 
Training. 




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In Freshman year there must be an election of two of 
the three studies, Greek, Latin, and Mathematics. 

Elective courses, to the number of one hundred and 
twenty, include advanced study in the subjects already 



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mentioned, together with courses, both elementary and 
advanced, in Science, Philosophy, History, Literature, 
Economics, Sociology, Debating, and Education. 

Students intending to pursue the study of medicine may 
substitute for the academical studies of the Senior year the 
work in Anatomy, Physiology, and Chemistry, in the first 
year of the medical course. 

The Tuition is seventy-five dollars a year. The 
income of more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars 
is annually distributed in scholarships and prizes. 

The Academic Year is divided into two semesters 
of equal length, which are separated by the summer 
vacation of thirteen weeks. There are also two recesses, 

of ten days each, one the 
Christmas recess, and 
the other the Easter re- 
cess, at or near the first 
of April. 

Catalogues, containing 
full and detailed information 
concerning examinations, 
degrees, courses of study, 
prizes, regulations, etc., will 
be sent on application to the 
Registrar of Bowdoin 
College. 




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THE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF MAINE 

The medical department of the college was incorporated 
in 1820 by the first legislature of the new State of Maine. 
Its course of instruction covers four years of eight months 




HUBBARD GRAND-STAND 



each. The studies are distributed through the curriculum 
according to the following schedule : 

First Year : Anatomy, Histology, Physiology, Chemis- 
try, Personal Hygiene. 

Second Year: Anatomy, 
Physiology, Chemistry, Pa- 
thology, Bacteriology. 

Third Year : Internal 
Medicine, Surgery, Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics, 
Obstetrics. 




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Fourth Year : Internal Medicine, Surgery, Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics, Medical Jurisprudence, Public 
Hygiene, Diseases of Women, Diseases of Children, Diseases 
of the Mind, 
Diseases of the 
Skin, Diseases 
of the Genito- 
urinary Sys- 
tem, Diseases 
of the Eye, 
Diseases of the 
Ear, Diseases 
of the Nose 
and Throat, 
Diseases of the 
Joints. 

The students of the first and second years are instructed 
at Brunswick, where the school has been situated since 
its foundation in 1820, and where the students have the ad- 
vantage of the library, the col- 
lections, and the laboratories of 
the college; while the instruc- 
tion of the last two years is 
given in the neighboring city of 
Portland, where the students have 
the clinical advantages afforded by 
the Maine General Hospital and 
other hospitals in that city. 

The Tuition for each of the 
four years is $100, in addition to 



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TRAINING QUARTERS, HI'IiBARI) GRAND-STAND 



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FRATERNITY HOUSES 



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the matriculation fee of $5.00 and moderate charges for 
laboratory expenses and examinations. 

The requirements for admission include English, Arith- 
metic, Algebra, Geometry, History of the United States, 
Physics, Chemistry, and Latin, as specified in the annual 
catalogue. Graduates of colleges, normal schools, high 
schools, and academies; and students who have passed the 
entrance examination of any recognized college are ex- 
empted from examination on presenting their diplomas or 
matriculation tickets, provided the latter cover the require- 
ments of the Medical School. 

The annual catalogue of the college includes also a cata- 
logue of the Medical School of Maine. A separate 
bulletin for the medical department is issued early in July 
and may be had on application to the Dean of the Med- 
ical School, Brunswick, Maine. Any inquiries for more 
detailed information concerning entrance examinations, 
courses of study, etc., may be addressed to the same officer. 

ALLIED INTERESTS 
The Greek Letter Fraternities constitute, as in most 
American colleges, an important element in the intellectual 
and social life of the student body at Bowdoin. The Fra- 
ternity houses are attractive and well ordered, with stewards 
and keepers; they have pleasant dining-rooms, and are in 
all respects well fitted for the social life of the Fraternity 
members, and for the entertainment of their friends. Besides 
the six houses shown in the accompanying cuts, there is a 
seventh, that of Delta Upsilon, which is now being com- 
pleted for occupancy by the Fraternity, and an eighth, the 
Kappa Sigma house, which is in process of construction. 



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A building not belonging to the college, but belonging to 
its history, and used for many of its public assemblies and 
ceremonies, is the First Parish, Congregational, Church. 
In this beautiful Gothic structure, close by the campus, are 
regularly held the Baccalaureate services, Commencement 
exercises, Anniversary gatherings, and other important 
public ceremonials of the college. Though not organically 
connected with the college, it is so intimately associated 
with it by virtue of these special occasions, as well as by its 
regular services of worship attended by many of the pro- 
fessors and students, that it is not uncommonly designated 
as the College Church. 




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